Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.' He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs. Despite his super-secret security protections, you can still reach him pretty easily by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail.com (Drop him a line if you'd like to get an e-mail whenever a new story is posted.) [Header image courtesy John Rickard]
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What it was like to be an operative in Scientology’s massive spy apparatus

 After reading about the death of Scientology’s legendary spymaster Jane Kember here at the Underground Bunker, former standout Scientology auditor Bruce Hines was motivated to write about what it was like to be an operative in the outfit Kember ran, the Guardian’s Office. Once again, Bruce has outdone []

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Merry Christmas: Kari Lake’s fraud lawsuit gets tossed out

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Kari Lake loses attempt to overturn []

Does Shelly Miscavige know it’s Christmas 2022?

 Four years ago we decided that on Christmas Day it would be a good time to review what we knew about the disappearance of Shelly Miscavige, wife to Scientology’s leader David Miscavige, who vanished from Scientology’s Gold Base in summer 2005. We wondered if Shelly, kept hidden in a remote mountain compound, even knew it []

Kari Lake tells a whopper: ‘I believe we won by 400,000 to 500,000 votes’

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Election denialism is a potent []

PODCAST: How Tory Christman saved Rosie O’Donnell from joining Scientology

 One of the people we were happy to see in Los Angeles when we were covering the Danny Masterson trial was our old friend Tory []

Next-generation Q patriots are going to be even more lit!

 Some links to Q-related items today…

The Jan 6 Committee releases its final, 845-page report, and concludes that Donald Trump should be barred from future []

Need last-minute gifts for the Scientologists on your list? We got your back, Santa!

 We’ve seen a number of Scientology holiday catalogs over the years, and this year’s edition didn’t fail to give us a chuckle. So we thought we’d share some of the images from it while you prepare for your own []

Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene is the spat we needed and deserve

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene is the spat we needed and []

Judge sets Jan 20 hearing for motion to serve Scientology leader in trafficking case

[Attorney Neil Glazer is still trying to serve Scientology leader David Miscavige]

 Now this is the showdown we were telling you just the other day that we’d like to see!

After Scientology leader David Miscavige finally had a lawyer appear for him in the Tampa federal labor trafficking lawsuit (and simply in order to keep him out []

Just in time for Christmas, it’s Trump’s tax returns!

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Trump’s tax returns, just in time for []